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Rossi Two Souls of Solomon

The subtitle of this recording is an explicit reference to Rossi’s social and professional position as an early seventeenth-century Jewish...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/1998

Peter Serkin plays Toru Takemitsu

Peter Serkin had a long-standing association with Takemitsu (who died in 1996), and the composer was present during the recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1997

Beethoven & Mozart Clarinet Concertos

When Michael Collins has given so many inspired performances in concert of Mozart’s supreme masterpiece, it is surprising that we...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

Affinity with the German repertory, we are told, led to this French trio's choice of the name Wanderer. Since their...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1995

Coleridge-Taylor Works for Violin and Piano

Poor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): little did the 23-year-old composer realise that, in relinquishing the wholesale copyright to his 1898 cantata...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2003

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7

With Vol. 7 of his nine-volume set of the Beethoven sonatas under his belt, John O'Conor approaches the end of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1993

Pfitzner: Orchestral Works

It is a familiar problem of Austro-German late-romanticism that lesser composers often produced works as large-scale as those of their...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1989

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Backhaus

There are great piano records, and there are great piano records. One thinks of Horowitz toying with Czerny (RCA, 11/91),...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Liszt The Power of Love

Liszt’s songs, a much underrated part of his output, find a most sympathetic interpreter in Philip Langridge. He has the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996

Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Vol 1

Having just counted 22 bassoon concertos by Vivaldi in my record collection I am chastened to find that not one...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1987

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